The Dartmouth College men's and women's swimming and diving programs are
back in action after an 18-day layoff for exams and the Thanksgiving holiday
with several meets this week. The Big Green women will take on Twin State rival
Vermont on Wednesday (Nov .28) and the squads will join back up for the Brown
Invitational over the weekend.

BIG GREEN TIDBITSBig Green Off to a Good Start - The
Dartmouth swimming and diving teams are back in the water after opening the
season against Cornell and Harvard on Nov. 10.
Both squads defeated Cornell while falling to Harvard. The women bested
the Big Red for the third consecutive season while the men picked up their
second straight victory over the Cornell men.

Home Sweet Karl Michael Pool - The
women's meet against Vermont on Wednesday marks the first home meet of the
season for the swimming and diving squads. This is the seventh consecutive
season the Big Green have hosted at least one home meet prior to their annual
training trip.

Women Take On Twin State Rival Vermont - The Big
Green women will welcome Vermont to Karl Michael Pool for the first of two
meets in which they will be competing by themselves. The Big Green are looking for their third
straight win over the Catamounts. The Big Green will also travel to take on New
Hampshire later in the season.

Brown Invitational On Tap - The Big
Green will compete in the first of two invites this weekend when they travel to
Providence, R.I. for the Brown Invitational. This will be the first time since
the 2010-11 season in which the Big Green will compete in more than one invite
during the regular-season. In 2010-11
Dartmouth participated in the Middlebury Invite in addition to the Dartmouth
Invitational. The Brown invitational
will serve as the Ivy League double dual between the Big Green and Brown and
Princeton. Also swimming at the invitational are Columbia (men and divers),
Army, Rider and the UNH and Yale women.

Big Green Moving Up The Ranks - The Big
Green open the 2012-13 slate with high expectations. 2011-12 saw Dartmouth make
a huge jump in the Ivy League standings on both the men and women's side. The
men, fresh off an outstanding regular-season which saw them defeat Cornell for
the first time in over a decade, swam to a fifth-place finish, its highest
finish ever at the Ivy League Championship with 764.5 points. The women were equally impressive taking
fifth-place at the Ivy League championship with 846.5 points - it was the
highest finish for the women in over a decade. Both teams improved upon their seventh and
sixth-place finishes in 2010-11.

Freshman Diver Gillis Attends
Canadian Olympic Trials - Freshman diver Brett Gillis (Kitchner, Ontario, Canada) spent part of his spring
trying to make the 2012 Canadian Olympic team. The freshman took 16th on the
10-meter board.

Headed to The Sunshine State- The
Dartmouth swimming and diving team will make the trek to Key Largo and Islamorada,
Fla., for 12 days of training before breaking for the holidays. Last season,
the Big Green traveled to Hawaii and in 2010-11 the teams went to Puerto Rico
and St. Croix.

Big Green Host Third Annual
Dartmouth College Invitational - The Dartmouth College
Invitational is on the Big Green schedule for the third consecutive season. The
Big Green will welcome UMass, Northeastern, Boston College, Maine, Rhode
Island, Connecticut College, Boston University and Vermont to the third annual
invitational held at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center in White River Junction,
Vt., Jan. 25-26.

Henn and Guardalabene Named Captains
of the Women's Squad - Senior Isa Guardalabene (Albany, Calif.) and juniorErin Henn (Lawrenceville, N.J.) will serve as team captains for
the women's team for the 2012-13 season.

Derdeyn and Doherty to Captain Men's
Team - Seniors Will Derdeyn (St.
Louis, Mo.) andZack Doherty (Pelham, N.Y.) will serve as co-captains for the
men's team this season.

Lannan Joins Squad as Assistant
Coach - Ross Lannan begins his first season as an
assistant coach for the Big Green. Lannan comes to Hanover after spending two
seasons in the same capacity at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. Welcome
aboard Coach Lannan!

Wilson Returns for 20th Season- Head
Coach Jim
Wilson is in his 20th season as head coach of the Dartmouth swimming
and diving squads. Wilson, originally hired to coach the Dartmouth men, took
over the women's team in 2006. Wilson also returns assistant coach Jenn
Verser whileChris
Hamilton returns as Dartmouth's diving coach.Ross Lannanbegins his
first season as an assistant coach.

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